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These companies demonstrate significant racial/ethnic and gender diversity in their workforce and new hires, as well as in the talent pipeline into management, within management, at the top three levels of the organization and for the top 10 percent highest-paid employees.

They utilize best practices that show correlations to improved human-capital results. These include:

The No. 1 company on this list, Kaiser Permanente, is one of the most diverse organizations in terms of race/ethnicity and gender at all levels. The company’s workforce is 76 percent female, 20 percent Asian, 18 percent Latino and 13 percent Black.

Diversity resonates at every level, including its board of directors, which is 60 percent female, 33 percent Black, 11 percent Latino and 11 percent Asian.

Kaiser emphasizes access to education, skill development and continuing education for its workforce, including a tuition-reimbursement program that heavily benefits Black, Latinos and Asians.